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I as a big fan of genshiken thing that, part two of manga [if it can be divided into two parts] is better than the first one.

Spoiler for manga:

Even if you look at the developement of Sasahara's relationship to Ogiue, whitch is one of the main plot of manga.....

That's why I should say genshiken2 is going to be better anime than first season for me. I have to say just one thing, if they are going to folow the manga's plot it will be seriously a great successor

I went to Comike only once in the summer in my entire life.
My experience? Well, I looked like what Kuchiki looked like in this episode.
Hot, sweaty, stinky, standing in the line with 500 thousand (yes, you read that correctly... over FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND Otaku gather for this massive event over the course of 3 days) geeks for hours under the sun with no AC. I thought I was gonna die. No, literally.
I will never go to a summer Comike again.

Genshiken's "Comifes" didnt' look nearly as packed as the real Comike, but that may just be because drawing hundreds of thousands of mobs in packed space is asking way too much from a TV anime show.

I was sooo looking forward to Kosaka's fanservice in this ep too!
Imagine how shocked and depressed I was when I saw this....

*cries*

My very un-happy reply:

Spoiler:

Yeah, i went into this episode waiting to see Kousaka cosplay from the manga --- i mean yeah it makes sense because of the new Kuji designs, though i do remember hearing that this second season would have the return of the original designs from the first series..

Ah well, it was Kousaka cosplay, though no way near as hot as it should have been.

well another episode to make me laugh. Since I've read the manga so this episode has not much thing to surprise me, except as what many people say, the change of Kousaka' cosplay from Tachibana (Kujian 1 version) to Tokino (Kujian 2006 version)! Which indeed makes him...less sexy

btw, is it just me or I see Miyuki (Lucky Star) dojin in Takayanagi' place? And seems like they're advanced a bit at the end of the episode when they show Yabusaki-san saw the Genshiken dojin (something to do with Ogiue in the latest translated manga)

I wish there are more real Kujian dojin available as we see from that Ihato Kouji in episode 3, it looks good

I was sooo looking forward to Kosaka's fanservice in this ep too!
Imagine how shocked and depressed I was when I saw this....

*cries*

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Originally Posted by Shiroth

Spoiler for Kousaka crossplay in the manga:

Spoiler for cosplay:

I knew something was lacking in this ep. Kousaka's cosplay in the manga made me go 'WTF' at how revealing it was (and how unashamed Kousaka was at flaunting his 'assets' ), and I'm sure that was the reaction Shimoku was aiming for. He even used a Saki shower scene as a buffer, that clever bastard

Somehow, that same energy didn't translate into the anime. Sasahara seems 1000x more boring, Saki's reaction wasn't nearly as hysterical, and everyone at the booth were pretty mellow with the cosplay. Even Kuchiki's presence hardly changed anything.

Plus, the 24 parody wore thin really fast. They should've parodied more from the actual show, such as the shifting viewpoints.

Maybe it's time to pull a Lucky Star and change the director. This season isn't nearly as energetic as the first and the OVA were, and when we get to the Ogiue arc, it'll need all the zest it can get.

Nah, the time thing was defenitly a 24 parody. The way it inserts it between the key points, the way it changes by the minute, heck it even uses the exact same sound font! Majority of Japanese reviewers caught that too. (Yes, 24 is aired in Japan, dubbed in Japanese. The Japanese VA for Jack is none other than Rikiya Koyama who played Hakuoro-san in Utawarerumono )
But then again, parodies are perfectly fitting for this show's theme. Along with the Eva font, Lucky Star doujin, OP, etc.

As for pulling the director... I disagree.
This second season has been going excellent, both in pacing and direction.
It's most definitly in the top five most enjoyable anime this season, at least for me.

I see no problem at all with the first three episodes --- so i'm guessing what you're not finding 'energetic' is this actually part of the story, maybe?

I dunno...I'm just not getting the same vibe that I did from the OVA and the manga. Feels like the humor isn't quite as sharp this time around. It might also be the fact that Sasahara just isn't that strong a lead character...he's way too humble to deliver any sort of impact, be it dramatic or comical.

I'm probably jumping the gun here, so I'll give it a few more episodes before writing it off. Next ep seems Ohno/Tanaka-centric, so that might pick things up.

I went to Comike only once in the summer in my entire life.
My experience? Well, I looked like what Kuchiki looked like in this episode.
[...] I will never go to a summer Comike again.

I went this August and I'll second that. Tokyo in the summer, never again (but flights already booked for December, though I can probably only make it to Comiket on Sunday).

The second season has felt more like a reality show than an anime so far. But I like it, I think both this and the former style suit the series. But I'll agree that more showing of assets would have been warranted.

The change made some of the comments of Madarame and Sasahara seem 'flat'. Especially the 'nose bleed' comment. While Kousaka looked cute, he didn't look 'nose bleed'-worthy without the bare midriff. Now if they did the cosplay like the manga, THAT would be a trap.

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Originally Posted by siden87

finish watching episode 3 subs.

Spoiler for episode 3:

well another episode to make me laugh. Since I've read the manga so this episode has not much thing to surprise me, except as what many people say, the change of Kousaka' cosplay from Tachibana (Kujian 1 version) to Tokino (Kujian 2006 version)! Which indeed makes him...less sexy

btw, is it just me or I see Miyuki (Lucky Star) dojin in Takayanagi' place? And seems like they're advanced a bit at the end of the episode when they show Yabusaki-san saw the Genshiken dojin (something to do with Ogiue in the latest translated manga)

Pause it and look at the doujin closely and you'll see "イクでがんす？" [ikudegansu?] as the title. That is what Miyuki says in the beginning of each Lucky☆Star episode until number 15 when it's changed to the "３－年、Ｂ－組" [3-nen, B-gumi] intro.

Did make me feel all over again that they should of kept the original unbalance character designs and not replace some of them with rather blah looking ones...

You mean how the anime managed to change the doujin into something else? That's why some companies shouldn't be allowed to make an anime version of a manga and it's not the only thing they censored obviously (see trap cosplay).